Badge-fastener



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK J. I EHN, OFEAST ORANGE, JERSEY, A S SIGNOR TO THE WHITEHEAD.J&

7 EOAG COMPANY, OE'NEWARK NEW JERSEY, ACORPORATIONOFTNEW JERSEY.

M BADGE FAS TENER.

, Speoitication'of Letters Patent.

Patente'dAug. 2, 1 921.

T 0 all whom'it mag concern Be it known thatAI, FRANK J. FEHN, a citizenof the United States of America, and resident of East Orange, in'zithe:county of Essex, in the Stateof New-Jersey, have invented new anduseful- Improvements in Badge-Fasteners, of which the following, takenin connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, andexact description.

This invention relates to certain improvements in badges and similararticles having hinged pins by which they may be removably attached to agarment and refers more particularly to the means for supporting andlocking the pin upon the main body or back of the badge.

The means commonly employed for'mounting the pin upon the badge-plateand for locking it in closed position consists of ears or lugs madeseparate from the plate but secured thereto by soldering or similarfastening means which, aside from the necessity for making these piecesfrom extra stock, are more or less insecure and, therefore, unreliable,and the main object of my present invention is to stamp these parts fromthe pin-supporting plate and thereby to produce a stronger, morepermanent and reliable pin fastening, but also to enable those parts tobe formed in ractically the same operation which forms t e main body ofthe pin-supporting plate or badge.

Other objects and uses relating to specific parts of the badge will bebrought out in the following description.

In the drawings:

Figure 1, is a rear face view of one form of badge plate showing thepin-supporting and locking ears or lugs in operative position and thepin as attached thereto.

Fig. 2, is a face view of the same pin-supporting plate shown in Fig. 1,omitting the pin, the pivot supporting lugs and locking member or keeperbeing shown as flattened out or in the position in which they are outbefore bending to receive the pin.

Fig. 3, is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 33 Big. 1.

Figs. 4 and 5, are detail sectional views taken on lines H and 55 Fig.1.

Fig. 6, is a rear face view of a modified form of pin-supporting platehaving integral pivot-supporting lugs and keeper similar to that shownin Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive.

Fig. .7 ,is azfa'cezview ofthe' pin supporting :plate showninFig;l6,'rexceptthatithe lugs .and keeper. areifiattened out as:originally cut beforeibending. I

Figs. 8=and.9, aredetail sectional views .takens'respectively on lines8-8 v and 9 9 Fig. 6. I

The pin supporting plate as 1 may be of any desired size or form but ispreferably made of thin sheet metal and has portions thereof cut in theform of tongues integral at one end with the body of the plate so thatthey may be folded or bent in the same direction and in parallelism toform a pair of ears or lugs -2 for receiving between them one end of apin -3-, said lugs and interposed portion of the pin being apertured toreceive a pivotal rivet -4.

Another portion of the pin supporting late some distance from the pivotreceiving ugs 2- is cut from the main body in the form of a hook shapedtongue 5 integrally united at one end to said body and afterward bent upto a plane at substantially right angles to said body to form a keeperor looking member with which the free end of the pin 3 may beinterlocked and released at will, the open side of the keeper hook 5facing the main body of the plate while the free end of the hook isspaced a sufiicient distance from said body to permit the point of thepin to pass between those parts into and out of the open side of thekeeper.

The pivotal end of the pin 3- is also hook shaped in that it is returneda short distance in the same direction as the main body to form asupplemental arm 6-, the free end of which is spaced a sufficientdistance from the main portion of the pin to permit it to be hooked overand upon the pivot -1 as shown more clearly in Fig. 3.

The relation of this supplemental arm 6 to the main portion or shank ofthe pin is such as to cause it to impinge against the adjacent face ofthe plate 1-- with a resilient motion when the point of the pin isforced into interlocking engagement with the keeper 5 to yieldingly holdsaid pin in its closed or locked position.

That is, the pin is preferably made of resilient wire so that whenforced to its looking position, its supplemental arm -6 will be placedunder more or less tension tending to open the pin when released and totension it against the under side or the keeper when closed, whichtogether with the rigidity of the lugs -2 and 5, by reason of theirintegrity with the main body of the plate, affords a stronger, and,therefore, more efiicient means of attaching the badge to a garment.

What I claim is: I Y

In a badge fastener, the combination of a sheet metal plate havingintegral ears and an integral keeper hook pressed up to one side of themain body, said ears projecting edgewise from the main body in spacedparallel planes, the keeper hook projecting edgewise from said body in aplane at right angles to that of the ears, a pintle between and upon theears, a pin looped around the pintle and having its ends extending inthe same general direction therefrom, one end being movable into and outof engagement with the hook, and the other end being movable into andout of engagement with the main body of the plate at a point betweenthepintle and hook and placed under tension when the pin is engaged withthe hook.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21st day of March,1919.

, FRANK FEH U Witnesses:

GEORGE E. Pos'r, FREDRICK- FEHN.

